The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet novel Chapter 1055

She wanted to leave him to live a life of freedom and spontaneity. Was that really so wrong?

She only teamed up with Susan to drug him because she had her back against the wall.

Susan had blackmailed her with a video of her mother, leaving her with no choice but to comply.

Her rush to leave the hotel was to seek out Atticus and erase the video from Bruce's possession, to remove the leverage Bruce's family held over her.

Only by erasing the threat could she find true liberation.

Why did it have to be so hard for her, simply wanting a life without constraints? It was as if she had triggered his wrath, and he had gone mad with tormenting her.

Thalassa's eyes brimmed with tears, her jaw clenched in an effort to suppress the despair and pain welling up inside her.

At her most distressed, she could no longer bear it and whispered, "Lysander, my stomach... it hurts so badly..."

Her words were strained, voicing the physical agony she felt.

Lysander, with his face flushed from his heated anger, had a voice as hoarse as gravel and eyes as unforgiving as ice. Upon hearing her, he spat out, "You're lying to me again!"

Last time at the Crest Summit hotel, when Lysander wanted to take her to the security room to check the surveillance, she claimed a stomach-ache to avoid it, which was a ploy to cover for the people who had kidnapped her!

And now, she was trying the same trick.

Thalassa's body convulsed in pain. Sweat beaded on her forehead and dripped onto the bed, seeping into the pure cotton sheets.

"I... I’m really having a stomach-ache..." she insisted through clenched teeth, gripping the bed sheet tightly.

Lysander didn't believe her; he was convinced she was playing games, and he showed no mercy.

Suddenly, he caught the metallic scent of blood.

His eyes found a streak of crimson.

His expression darkened.